(Vaibhav Sharma, 18, is a student at Delhi University who has just completed the first year of his B.Tech Degree in Computer Science under the four-year undergrad programme that was introduced last year, and has now been cancelled.)With the sudden roll-back of FYUP, the fate of many students who were part of this curriculum is unsure.
A student like me who enrolled in Delhi University aspiring to get a B.Tech degree after four years is now unsure of what degree I will eventually get. Will it be B.Sc or B.Tech? My future is quite insecure. I want to get an MBA and then work with an IT firm.
The Bachelors of Science (B.Sc) program was a three-year long programme. It was converted to a four-year course with a B.Tech degree for Computer Science and Electronics. And this appealed to students like me to join DU rather than going to a private engineering college because Delhi University is prestigious and it was offering a good degree for Science students like me.
After completing the first year of any course, what most students feel is that they have climbed up one step on the ladder to a successful future, but with this sudden news of the rollback of FYUP, it feels more like we are falling into a well.
The most surprising news of all was the late reaction of the UGC towards this course. Does it take one year for this sort of body to decide whether a course is appropriate or not? Where was UGC when this course was introduced? The BJP said in its campaign manifesto that it would like to scrap FYUP course from DU. But what about what students want? We are considered the future of the country. We should be studying, right, not not wasting our time protesting and asking the government to take a decision that helps secure and not jeopardize our future.
Even if DU plans on giving a B.Tech degree to the current batch but then discontinues the course, it won't be of any importance as we will be labeled with tags like "the only B.Tech batch."
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